MAJOR BREAKING: In a late-night order, Judge Immergut, a Trump-appointee, has BLOCKED Trump from deploying the National Guard from ANY state or D.C. into Oregon.

Umbire got banned too.

Seems like every community I'm a part of is in deep leadership crisis mode, and I can't help but feel that the broader political environment is putting earth core-degree pressure on every organizational fault line right now

Instead the transphobia allegations clearly deeply upset the CEO, who is almost certainly more sensitive to it at least in part because there is obvious genocide stuff going on and known, now. She knows it is an extra bad look, and freaks out, and obsessively waffle posts for some reason

Can we get the word around for more donations to go to BlackSky so there’s funding for the infrastructure that can bring Link back? From my understanding: Relays are costly and expensive. Anyone feel free to chime in. Bluesky relays is what has him banned. opencollective.com/blacksky

Let me get this straight: Link, a Black user, got banned for calling out the Bluesky CEO for following a racist. That’s not a good look, especially given Bluesky’s historical treatment of Black users here on bluesky.

So, what we're seeing is a disregard for their commitment to user choice and a demonstration of the kinds of people, the kinds of moderators that Jay and company intend to be. Now, if you've been here long enough, the writing was on the wall, but damn this is a bad look after a day-long crashout.

At this point, it doesn't matter what justification they provide for Link's suspension, the fact of the matter is that the BlueSky team has demonstrated a wanton disregard for their own commitments to user moderation by deploying suspensions in response to what they take to be personal slights.

What @jay.bsky.team and @safety.bsky.app are demonstrating here is that any move to demonstrate the hypocrisy of their public statements regarding the kind of platform they're trying to make, any attempt to hold them accountable for enabling bigotry on that platform, will be met with suspension.

It's a choice that's part of a long pattern of anti-blackness on BlueSky and demonstrates an inability to tolerate even the most minor of pushback when said pushback is provided through the very mechanisms of the site. I know this kills the joke, but some things need to be said plainly.

Suspending Link after he pointed out the how following Jonathan Chait after being accused of transphobia does not allow you to beat the transphobia allegations. In fact, it does the opposite. To be clear: suspending Link was certainly a choice. And we know what KIND of choice it is.

Bluesky deleted my post complaining about the CEO lol. I did not delete it myself! Full on Lowtaxing from Jay here.

When I got here during the invite only time, I pointed out that the circulation of invites among predominately white, tech-adjacent folks of a variety of identities would result in an organization of the cultural habits of This Place around whiteness, white supremacy, and ancillary oppressions.

Rodney Taylor still needs our help! He’s still locked in an ICE camp. He’s still going without his new prosthetic legs. He’s still facing deportation to Liberia. He’s still having necessary disability accommodations ignored. Please keep sharing his story. Public pressure works!

Hey skyline 'clanker' complainers! If I leave Windows OS for Linux, am I being xenophobic to Windows' culture? Is it like immigrating to a new country? Do you smell burnt toast?

"Referring to something in derogatory terms means you think it's human. And that's why 'dehumanizing' AI concedes that it's human!" *looks down at my black ass arm* Mmmm, I don't think so pookie.

I’ll start crashing out if people started caring about racism against AI but can’t wrap their head around antiblackness or xenophobia or-

Real, actual, human beings are harmed by the making and proliferation of GenAI, many of them in the US' exploited external colonies, and also its internal ones. Why am I seeing you all complaining about "clanker"? It is truly an inanimate object. Calm yourself.

People should be just as pissed about this as Kimmel.

Paypros are still throwing their weight around. Now's a good time to pick up yelling at them again!

🥺 Bluesky can you help a trans girl out?

Burger Becky, a trans elder in game development, was recently diagnosed with cancer. When she sets up the inevitable fundraiser to help pay for treatment i hope people will consider giving.

The last of the giant flower beetle saga... Mecynorrhina Ugandesis The very first one I ever reared, although they were a black-orange variant. I think the blue-pink is so iconic on them though #inverts #SciArt 💜🪲

The staff's inability to stop hating transes and darkies is gonna make these people post themselves out of a goddamn job. Three days of posting through it and telling us to fuck off...

Will going to bat for Just Shit while claiming to want to ban based on "vibes" just reveals that his preference for vibes is "evil transphobe" and the people he's thinks should be gone are "those trans women I think are too loud/uppity". Obnoxious.

Pencils is "everything is vibes" posting so hard, he is now insisting that no one ever notices the prices of anything, they just "kawnsoom". It's...kinda absurd really.

Our A/C has been broken for about a day, and it just got fixed. It's finally getting cooler again, and I'm sooooo happy. 😭 It was just so HOT, ya'll!

People's inability to read is truly trying my patience every day. Proving America's literacy stats and reading levels one dumb fuck hot take at a time.

Is it October yet?? #autumn please #illustration

I am frustrated with lib motherfucker's inability to read today. Some of you don't understand the concept of speculative fiction, and others just plain don't understand deeper more abstract concepts in general. "I think the aquatic lynch mob is bad!" Congrats, can you draw some connections here?

What the facility is really facing is an investigation. Just days before all of this, on September 24th, local officials had made it clear that ICE is about to lose its permit to operate in Portland because of repeated violations. open.substack.com/pub/dissenti...

If you read the article this was straight up a torture program that also featured a bunch of sexual assault, abuses on a level that one will day be in textbooks with the question how did it go on so long Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Sorry not arrested but pulled from the train and detained. Again, because a white woman complained to the conductor that she didn’t like the way he was sitting.

The cops do not interact with Black people the way they do with white people and yet I had people screeching at me for a fucking week about how I should want the FBI to come to my house. You don’t understand what it’s like and it’s embarrassing when you speak over us.

Arrested because a white woman demanded he change the way he was sitting and when he didn’t, she complained to the conductor about his posture. His posture.

One of these days, I need to dig into how people consider Enbenness as a separate axis from transness or even cisness. That it's some additional factor that does or doesn't exist, but that nevertheless isn't materially relevant. It comes up in a number of different variations, but always irks me.

study ☔️

*mournfully shooting off a tshirt cannon into the sadly cheering funeral crowd*

What do you wanna tag next? 🎨🖌

Toppled any dystopian governments recently? #knightsofguinevere #fanart

Christian persecution in America is best defined by this image: No actual struggle, wearing clothes that cost more than my entire wardrobe, polished cross instead of rugged, and surrounded by crowds of fellow hypocrites cheering on bigotry who believe they're the victims.

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

The effect of car dependency: in 1940, Basil Rathbone was photographed wearing an overcoat outside his home. As more men relied on cars, overcoats became shorter to accommodate drivers. Today, the right is marketed as an "overcoat," even if it would've been considered more sport coat length in 1940.

Never forget that one of the big reasons that social media is so heavily slanted towards bad moderation and ignoring violent rhetoric from the right is that they did have automated tools that deplatformed far right rhetoric, but they turned it all off because almost all Republicans got caught too

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

Every WSJ journalist and other journalist who pushed the lie that the shooter was pushing "transgender ideology" is as bad as journalists who pushed anti-Jewish libel in Nazi Germany. Nazis are openly calling for violence against trans people under the assumption the shooter was trans.

Just making sure, bombing the shit out of a boat with 11 people on it to feed your dictator fantasies is NOT political violence, right?

I'm sorry @jacobinmag.bsky.social but this take, accusing fellow leftists of a "competitive lack of empathy" and "antimoral posturing" whilst saying Kirk "never laid a finger on anyone" is frankly afactual to the point of gaslighting. jacobin.com/2025/09/char...

The only way you genuinely believe Kirk never harmed anyone is if you're cis, white, and think human rights are an academic exercise.

Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't.